This week in lifelogging: best use of time-lapse moments

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Make the best of your time-lapse moments

Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment, until it becomes a memory. -Dr. Seuss

Here at Narrative, we fully identify with the wise words from Dr. Seuss above. We believe that sometimes the best moments in life are the simple ones. And we also believe that one of the best ways to present those simple moments for lifelogging enthusiasts is in the form of a time-lapse video. We love how time-lapse videos bring out the essence of a moment more clearly than still photos, which is already worth a thousand words. Here’s one example of how the Narrative Clip is being used in a fun new project for Farmers’ Hub, where they gave a brand new Narrative Clip camera to one of their growers to document this year’s preparation and planting for the potatoes used to create Walkers crisps. We appreciate projects like these and thus would like to introduce some of what we think are the best use of time-lapse moments and hope that they would inspire you to create your own little time-lapse project in some form.

For depicting a city’s colours from dawn to dusk

This first project that we would like to introduce to you is created by photographer Dan Marker-Moore. And even though this isn’t, in the absolute strictest sense “a time-lapse movie” in terms of the technique used and its final results, we love how Dan incorporated aspects of a time-lapse to create what he terms the “Time Slice” series, where each slice of a photo taken in a time-lapse is chronologically arranged either horizontally or diagonally. In one of his images, Dan even experimented with the use of triangles in arranging his time slices. Simply beautiful! Check out more of his amazing work here!

For supporting those who are battling cancer

Art combined with supporting a cause! Why not? Here’s one created as part of the Australian campaign “Dry July” to support those battling cancer. Dry July is a fundraiser that challenges you to go booze-free for a month to support adults living with cancer. This year in particular, Dry July managed to set a few Guinness World Records while seeking to maximise the amount of funds raised by the end of the campaign. One of those Guinness World Records were set by this world’s largest Skittles art mosaic that was created out of more than 50000 Skittles over 67 man hours and its time-lapse movie certainly documented the amount of effort involved in creating the entire piece. Love Dry July and the cause it is supporting? Head over here to donate right now!

For bringing out the cool factor in new cars

Holden cars are probably not the first cars you think of when you talk about your dream car or the coolest cars but this time-lapse movie has definitely accentuated the cool factor of the all new Holden Cruze Z-Series. This time-lapse movie showing how a midnight drive through beautiful Tasmania landscapes in the new Holden Cruze Z-Series range looks like is about to fulfil its tagline – see Cruze in a new light. Self-fulfilling prophesy or hard work backed by awesome time-lapse movies as advertisements? You are the judge but comments below the video surely show one thing in unison – that people wouldn’t need the “skip ad” button on Youtube if they were actually good ads. Are you compelled to get the new Z-Series now?

For comparing then and now

Well this final one isn’t really a time-lapse per se either, but we thought it was really interesting to put it in for your viewing pleasure as well. Here’s another one from Australia (this time from Sydney), and pictures like the one you see above are a part of the collection of digital photo compositions comparing the Australian society in pre-war 1914 and today. These are created by John Donegan, a photographer with 702 ABC Sydney, where he blended multiple digital colour images taken in 2014 with a single black-and-white image from a glass-plate negative taken around 1914. John observes from his project that even though a war was about to break out, people in Sydney were still chatting on the streets, oblivious to what was going to happen. This runs in parallel with how people of today scurry about their business. In his words, “Australia was about to change in unimaginable ways when these photographs were taken, but in some ways, as the montages suggest, perhaps Sydney has not changed that much.” Do you find some similarities in the photos of the past and of today in your own city too? Feel free to share them with us!